re: #439 windsagio

Antibiotics in general? I presume you mean ‘antibiotics in livestock’. In that case, I’d throw back and see a study. There are alot of factors that go into that (ie resistance)… and there’s also the use of antibiotics as growth promoters. Higher productivity is certainly good, but is it saving lives directly?

You’re taking 2 exceptionally complex issues and simplifying them terribly.

Everything is multiplex, not complex; but if we are to communicate at all we have to keep some things basic. I’m speaking of antibiotics in beef. Simply the fact that more cows survive, making the cost of all proteins lower for consumers means that some get a balanced diet that they otherwise would not get.